Definition of "chawed" []

• Simple past tense and past participle of chaw., i.e. nonstandard variant of chewed. (verb)

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• "If he felt tired and lazy he patiently sat in front of the Halfway House at McClure and "chawed" and spat until he saw the"
• "But let him once be fairly cornered, convinced that dodging the question was out of the question, then would he turn himself square about, and looking you full in the face, out with the naked truth as bluntly as if he had "chawed" it into a hard wad and shot it at you from his pop-gun."
• "Why, there was one tribe that I saw in the East who putt fat in the tea, an 'another putt salt, and after they'd swallowed this queer kind of tea-soup, they divided the leaves among themselves an' chawed 'em up like baccy. ""